Villas in Sæby

About Sæby

Sæby is a town and seaport of about 9,000 people on the east coast of Vendsyssel, with market rights dating from 1524. The old town has yellow buildings from the 15th and 16th centuries, small shops and cafés. At the harbour entrance a 6.25 m statue, the Lady of the Sea, stands on the pier. The church is what remains of a Carmelite monastery from 1470, with frescoes from the early 16th century. The holiday houses are scattered around the area rather than in one cluster, with their middle some way south of the town, typically three bedrooms for six, most with a fireplace, and over a quarter with a sauna. Only a handful have a pool. A short distance outside the centre, Sæbygaard is a Renaissance manor with a museum of furniture.

Is Sæby right for you?

Best for

Families in a house for six, with a harbour town nearby

Not for you if

You want a pool or air conditioning, because almost no houses here have either.

Near Sæby

• Frederikshavn

  About 13 km north of Sæby, which itself lies within Frederikshavn municipality in Region Nordjylland.

• Sæbygaard

  A former Renaissance manor house, now a museum of historical furniture.

• Skagen

  Denmark's northernmost town, about 41 km by road north of Frederikshavn, with Grenen and Skagens Museum.

Getting to Sæby

Fly to Aalborg Airport; Aalborg lies about 50 km south of Sæby. Norwegian flies there from London Gatwick, while Ryanair stopped its Aalborg flights in March 2025. The X-bus 973X runs from Aalborg towards Frederikshavn, and the E45 is the main road. With homes scattered, plan on a car.

When to go to Sæby

The town gives you things to do on a wet day: Sæby Museum, the Minibyen scale model, the glassblowing workshop and the church with its frescoes. The houses here mostly have fireplaces and many have a sauna, which counts for more from autumn to spring than a pool does.

Sæby villa holidays: questions answered

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